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Summary

Because so many first-year writing students lack the basic skills the course demands, reading specialist McWhorter gives them steady guidance through the challenges they face in academic work. Successful College Writingoffers extensive instruction in active and critical reading, practical advice on study and college survival skills, step-by-step strategies for writing and research, detailed coverage of the nine rhetorical patterns of development, and 61 readings that provide strong rhetorical models, as well as an easy-to-use handbook in the complete edition. McWhorter's unique visual approach to learning uses graphic organizers, revision flowcharts, and other visual tools to help students analyze texts and write their own essays. Her unique attention to varieties of learning styles also helps empower students, allowing them to identify their strengths and learning preferences.

Author Biography

Kathleen T. McWhorter is professor emerita of humanities and former director of the Learning Skills Center at Niagara County Community College. She has also been on the faculty of the State University College at Buffalo. She is the author of a number of books on reading and writing skills for developmental students, including Expressways: Writing Scenarios, Paragraph and Essay, Academic Reading, Seventh Edition, Efficient and Flexible Reading, Ninth Edition, Active Reading Skills, Third Edition, and Reading Across the Disciplines: College Reading And Beyond, Fifth Edition, as well as a reader for composition classes, Seeing the Pattern: Readings for Successful Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

3 Reading in CollegeGetting StartedA GUIDE TO ACTIVE READING Before Reading *READING: American Jerk: Be Civil, or I’ll Beat You to a Pulp, Todd Schwartz While ReadingAfter ReadingWorking with Text *READING: Combat High, Sebastian Junger

4 Responding Critically to Text and Images*Strategies for Critical Thinking and Reading*Interpreting VisualsA GUIDE TO RESPONDING TO TEXTSummarize to Check Your UnderstandingLink the Reading to Your Own ExperiencesAnalyze the ReadingUsing Your Learning StyleHow to Approach the Student Essays in This BookSTUDENTS WRITE *READING: “American Jerk”? How Rude! (but True),Karen Vaccaro (student essay)

Part 2 Strategies for Writing Essays

5 Prewriting: How to Find and Focus IdeasChoosing and Narrowing a TopicThinking about Your Purpose, Audience, and Point of ViewDiscovering Ideas to Write AboutSTUDENTS WRITE Christine Lee’s Prewriting Strategies

21 Planning a Paper with SourcesWhen Should You Use Sources?Planning Your PaperChoosing and Evaluating Useful SourcesAnalyzing and Thinking Critically about SourcesWorking with Text: Reading Sources

22 Finding Sources and Taking NotesAn Overview of Library SourcesDoing Research on the World Wide WebExtracting Information from SourcesAvoiding PlagiarismConducting Field ResearchFinding Sources for Your Own Topic